Bertelsmann Aims to Attract Fans
By Acquiring Boxman.com's Assets

Bertelsmann AG has acquired Boxman.com's (www.boxman.com ) intellectual-property assets outside Britain in an effort to redirect music lovers to its own BOL.com (www.bol.com ) site.

Boxman, the online music retailer, is being liquidated, and Bertelsmann was interested in acquiring the company's intellectual-property assets in Sweden. But, under the terms of the deal, it had to acquire all of Boxman's assets outside the U.K.